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<blockquote data-quote="Cholla" data-source="post: 2631602" data-attributes="member: 124288"><p>My motivations for improving are many.</p><p></p><p>My mobility is rapidly decreasing. I no longer can walk the legs off anyone.</p><p>Hunting pressure is making it harder to get close to game out here in Arizona.</p><p>My disabled-vet daughter is in the ACES program and last year she shot an elk at 700+ yards using a guide's gun with a Huskma scope. I assume it is a Best of the West setup. First time hunting and she put two rounds within three inches and dropped the elk where it stood. When she called and told me the distance I said she didn't do that with my rifle. I had loaned her my rifle.)</p><p>This year, she got an antelope at 550 yards using the gun a guide had. She and I had been trying to get close enough to use my Winchester Model 70 but I didn't feel comfortable with her shooting past 300 yards and not knowing how well she could do a holdover.</p><p>This year my wife and I were drawn for mule deer in the unit we live in. I have an ideal location where I can overlook a valley. If I had a rifle that could be accurate out to 600 yards, everything in my vision would be in range.</p><p>All of this has made me realize I need to do something different. Not crazy different, just different. By next season, I plan on having that something in place, whatever it may be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cholla, post: 2631602, member: 124288"] My motivations for improving are many. My mobility is rapidly decreasing. I no longer can walk the legs off anyone. Hunting pressure is making it harder to get close to game out here in Arizona. My disabled-vet daughter is in the ACES program and last year she shot an elk at 700+ yards using a guide's gun with a Huskma scope. I assume it is a Best of the West setup. First time hunting and she put two rounds within three inches and dropped the elk where it stood. When she called and told me the distance I said she didn't do that with my rifle. I had loaned her my rifle.) This year, she got an antelope at 550 yards using the gun a guide had. She and I had been trying to get close enough to use my Winchester Model 70 but I didn't feel comfortable with her shooting past 300 yards and not knowing how well she could do a holdover. This year my wife and I were drawn for mule deer in the unit we live in. I have an ideal location where I can overlook a valley. If I had a rifle that could be accurate out to 600 yards, everything in my vision would be in range. All of this has made me realize I need to do something different. Not crazy different, just different. By next season, I plan on having that something in place, whatever it may be. [/QUOTE]
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